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Chorus

Of the same seed, in truth, they were utterly destroyed in unloving divisions,

in maddened discord, in the ending of their strife.
Their hatred has ceased. Their life has been mingled in the blood-soaked earth. Now truly their blood is one.
935

Ruthless is that which resolved their strife, the stranger from across the sea, sharpened iron rushed from the fire. Ruthless, too, was Ares, the cruel divider of their property, who made their father’s curses come true.
940

Seven Against Thebes. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1922.

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Seven Against Thebes (English) (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Modernized by Perseus.))

Editions (7)

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 957-965 focus

Αντιγονη

παισθεὶς ἔπαισας.

Ισμηνη

σὺ δ᾽ ἔθανες κατακτανών.

Αντιγονη

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔκανες¹

Ισμηνη

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔθανες

Αντιγονη

μελεόπονος.
960

Ισμηνη

μελεοπαθής.

Αντιγονη

ἴτω γόος.

Ισμηνη

ἴτω δάκρυ.²

Αντιγονη

πρόκεισαι³

Ισμηνη

κατακτάς.
965
966

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.) — 933 focus

Χορός

ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι,

διατομαῖς οὐ φίλοις,

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
935

νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.

πέπαυται δʼ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ζόα φονορύτῳ

μέμεικται· κάρτα δʼ εἴσʼ ὅμαιμοι.

πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων ὁ πόντιος
940

ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς

θακτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων

κακὸς δατητὰς Ἄρης ἀρὰν πατρῴ-

αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθῆ.

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 933 focus

ΗΜ.

ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι,

διανομαῖς οὐ φίλαις,
935

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ, νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ,

ΗΜ.

πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ζόα φονορύτῳ

μέμικται· κάρτα δ᾽ εἴσ᾽ ὅμαιμοι.

940

πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων

ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς

θηκτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων

κακὸς δατητὰς Αρης

ἀρὰν πατρῴαν τιθεὶς ἀλαθῆ.

945

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 933 focus

Ἡμιχόριον Α
στρ. δ'.

ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι

διατομαῖς οὐ φίλαις,

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
910

νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ζωὴ φονορύτῳ

Ἡμιχόριον Β

μέμικται, κάρτα δ᾽ εἴσ᾽ ὅμαιμοι.

πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων
915

ὁ Πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθείς,

θηκτὸς σίδαρος, πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων

κακὸς δατητὰς Ἄρης,

ἀρὰν πατρῴαν τιθεὶς ἀληθῆ.

ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ θΗΒΑΣ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 933 focus

Ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι

Str. 3.

διατομαῖς ἀφίλοις οὐ φίλαις

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
935

νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.

Πέπαυται δ' ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙ ΘΗΒΑΣ

ΧΟΡΟΣ

ζόα φονορύτῳ

μέμεικται μέμικται· κάρτα δ' εἴσ' ὅμαιμοι·

πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων
940

ὁ Πόντιος ξεῖνος, ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς

θηκτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων

κακὸς δατητὰς Ἄρης,

ἀρὰν πατρῴαν πατρὸς τιθεὶς ἀλαθῆ.

Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ θήβας. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 933 focus

Ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι,

διατομαῖς οὐ φίλαις,

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,

νείχεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.
920

Πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ζώα φονορύτῳ

μέμικται· κάρτα δ᾽ εἴσ᾽ ὅμαιμοι.

πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων ὁ πόντιος

ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς ταθείς
925

θηκτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων

κακὸς δατητὰς Ἄρης, ἀρὰν πατρῴ-

¹²³⁴⁵⁶

Δυσδαίμων δυσαίων σφ᾽ ἡ τεκοῦσα πρὸ πασᾶν προπασᾶν Η προπασῶν αὑτᾶς αὐτᾶσ τούσδ᾽ ἀλλαλοφόνοισ ⁷ οὐ φίλαις ἀφίλοις (ἀφίλαις) νείχεος νείκοσ, sed νείκεοσ primitus. φονορύτῳ ζοὰ . . μέμικται φονορύτῳ φονορρύτω κακὸς ἴσος δατητὰς κακοσ

AESCHYLI

ΧΟΡΟΣ

αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθῆ.

antistr. 3.

Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 933 focus

ΗΜΙΧ. Β

ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι

†διατομαῖς οὐ φίλαις, ἔριδι
935

μαινομέναι νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾶι.

πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίαι

ζόα φονορύτωι μέμεικται· κάρτα δ᾽ εἴσ᾽ ὅμαιμοι.

ΗΜΙΧ. Α

πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων

ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς

θηκτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων

ἴσος δατητὰς Ἄρης, ἀρὰν πατρώι-

αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθή. –
945

Translations (8)

The Seven against Thebes. (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven against Thebes.. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 933 focus

Fraternal in very truth! and utterly undone were they by a severing in no wise amicable, by phrenzied strife at the consummation of their feud.

Semi-Chorus

But their enmity is terminated: and in the reeking earth is their life-blood mingled, and truly are they of the same blood. A bitter arbiter of strife is the stranger from beyond the sea, the whetted steel that bounded forth from the fire; and bitter is the horrible distributer of their substance, Mars, who bath brought the curse of their father truly to its consummation.

Semi-Chorus

LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES (OCR draft) Experimental (LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 933 focus

ont fini tous deux sous les coups réciproques de leurs bras de frères !

Frères, oui, jusque dans l'anéantissement, grâce à un partage de haine, à une lutte de fureur, où s'achève leur querelle !

Leur haine a pris fin. Dans la terre trempée de leur sang, leurs vies se sont mélangées : cette fois, ils sont bien de

LES SEPT CONTRE THÈBES

LE CHŒUR

même sang ! Cruel a été l'arbitre de leur débat, l'étranger du Pont, le Fer ¹ qui sort aiguisé de la flamme ; cruel, l'impartial
partageur de leur patrimoine, Arès, qui réalise aujourd'hui l'imprécation de leur père.

The Seven Chiefs against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 933 focus

Grief, that rends the tortur'd breast,

Deep with real woes possest,

1025

Tears fast streaming from her eyes

From the haunts of pleasure flies,

Anguish, misery all her own,

Sadly pours the hollow groan;

Whilft the ruin'd palace round

1030

Echo answers to the sound;

And, each frightful pause between,

From her airy shell unseen,

Listens to the funeral strain,

Wailing the unhappy slain;

1035

Wailing all the dreadful woes

That from madding discord rose;

Many' a friend among the dead,

Whilst the hostile legions bleed.

2d SEMICHORUS.

Far beyond each sorrowing dame,
1040

Each that bears a mother's name,

Each that groans upon the earth,

Hapless she that gave them birth.

She, to share her bed and throne,

As an husband took her son:
1045

These she bore, and this their fate,

Brother slain by brother's hate.

ISMENE.

Brothers they, by birth allied,

Spread the mutual carnage wide:

Unfriendly each to other's life,
1050

In the madding rage of strife.

But their hatred is no more,

On the earth, all stain'd with gore,

Their stream of life unites, and shows

From one common source it rose.
1055

CHORUS.

Umpire of the strife of kings,

Forth the barbarous stranger springs:

Ruthless issuing from the flame

O'er the seas the keen steel came.

Ruthless came the realm to share,
1060

Big with mischief, wasting war,

And accurs'd, without remorse,

Executes a father's curse.

ANTIGONE.

Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, I Sette a Tebe: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 933 focus

Eran fratelli! E pel dissidio infesto

1030

e per la furia dissennata, giunsero,

nell'urto ultimo, a termine funesto.

Or tregua ebbe la lite.

Commiste nella polvere,

di sangue intrisa, vedi ambe le vite.

1035

Or consanguinee son!

Disciolse i nodo

de le liti fra lor l'ospite Càlibo

temprato al fuoco, in questo amaro modo:

le sciolse il ferro. Con amare mani
1040

Marte partiva i beni: i voti d'Edipo

non volle, il tristo, che cadesser vani.

4 Antistrofe IV

CORO

Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Septem ad Thebas: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 933 focus

Vnd fati uidelicet & omnino infælices,

Separatione inimica, furenti contentione,

In fine iurgij,

860

Quicuit odium, in terra

Sem.

Cæde liberata illorum uita mixta eſt.

Plus fatis uerò sunt fratres.

Cho.

Acerbum liberator contentionum Pontinus

Hoſpes, ex igni commotum acutum ferrum.
865

Acerbum uerb rerum malus diuiſor

Est Mars, execrationem paternam faciens ueram.

Anti.

Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) Experimental (Seven Against Thebes. Anna Swanwick, 1886.) — 933 focus

SEMI-CHORUS II

Stayed is their hate, and on the gory plain

Commingled is their life;

Too truly of one blood these foemen now.

Stern umpire of their strife,

The fire-born stranger from beyond the main,

The whetted steel. Hostile was Ares too,

Bitter apportioner of wealth, I trow,

Making the curse paternal all too true.

SEMI-CHORUS I
ANTISTROPHE IV.

Of heaven-sent woe allotted shares have they;—

Unhappy, doom'd from birth!

Lies 'neath their lifeless clay

Wealth fathomless of earth.

English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1908) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 933 focus

Yea, from one seed they sprang, and by one fate

Their heritage is desolate,

The heart's division sundered claim from claim,

And, from their feud, death came!

Now is their hate allayed,
950

Now is their life-stream shed,

Ensanguining the earth with crimson dye—

Lo, from one blood they sprang, and in one blood they lie!

A grievous arbiter was given the twain—

The stranger from the northern main,
955

The sharp, dividing sword,

Fresh from the forge and fire

The War-god treacherous gave ill award

And brought their father's curse to a fulfilment dire!

German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos. Deutsch in den Versmaßen der Urschrift. Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1854. Native Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, selected textual readings and metrical facsimiles. Remaining OCR differences and unattributed reading notes are documented in the linked review inventory.) — 933 focus

Ja Bruderhand, liebelos zerfleischend, gab

Ihnen graunvollen Tod

Im wildlodernden Zwift:
895

Also zerrann die Zwietracht!

Zweiter Halbchor.

Der Haß ruht nun; in blut'ger Erde

Floß Beider Lebensblut

In Ein's, ganz sind sie Eines Blutes.

Ein strenger Kampfschlichter war der pontische,
900

Heißer Glut entstürmte Fremdling,

Der scharfe Stahl, streng des Erbes Theiler auch,

Der Schlachtengott, der im Zorn

Des Vaters Fluch grausenvoll bewährte.

Erster Halbchor.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Seven Against Thebes (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Seven Against Thebes.) focus

933-934. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-988

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔκανες. δορὶ δ᾽ ἔθανες

δορί τ᾽ ἔκτανες, δορί τ' ἔθανες

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔθανες. δορὶ δ᾽ ἔκτανες

Lips. Ceteri

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔκτανες. δορὶ δ᾽ ἔθανες

. Pro

ἔκτανες

scripsi

ἔκανες

, quod metrum requirit.

935. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-989

μελεόπονος

μελαιόπονος

Lips.

935

936. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-990

μελεοπαθής

μελεοπαθές

Par. E. Omittit hanc vocem Lips.

936

937-938. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-991

ἴτω γόος. ἴτω δάκρυ

ἴτω γόος. ἴτω δάκρυα

M. G. Vit. Arund. Mosc. 1.2. Par. A. B. E. K. N. Colb. 1. regius Spanhemii.

ἴτω δάκρυα. ἴτω γόος

Ald. Rob. Turn.

ἴτω δάκρυα

Ismenae tribuit Lips. in quo

ἴτω γόος

omissum est. Scribendum esse

δάκρυ

etiam Lachmannus vidit.

939. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-992

πρόκεισαι Personae nota abest in Vit. Libri

προκείσεται

, nisi quod

προσκείσεται

habet Par. Ε.

προκείσεσθαι

G. Scribendum erat

πρόκεισαι

939

940. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-hermann1852-appcrit-lat1-993

NA Post hunc versum Ismenae versus excidit, cuius ea fere sententia fuit, quam his verbis,

πρόκεισαι φονευθείς

, indicavi.

940

Commentary (N. Wecklein, 1902; German; OCR draft) (Seven Against Thebes, explanatory commentary pp. 15–100. Single-witness OCR; source readings and all reference placements require scan review.) focus

872-940. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-580

ein ἰάλεμος nach der Angabe in 900, wonach dieser Ge- sang mit Zerreißen der Wangen (und mit Schlägen an Kopf und Brust nach 840f.) begleitet ist. Vgl. Cho. 422f., Soph. Αi. 627 f. mit Eur. Or. 1395. Diese Totenklage (854 f.) wird von Halbchören gesungen, welche in gleicher Weise abwechseln wie in Eum. 143-168, im ersten Strophenpaar zweimal, in den bei- den folgenden nur einmal. Auch die Unterbrechung des ersten Satzes durch den anderen Halbchor findet sich in den Eum. ebenso. 872 Η. δι' εὐωνύμων ὁμοσπλάγχνων τε (vgl. Pers. 569 Θρήκης ἂμ πε- διήρεις δυσχίμους τε κελεύθους) πλευρωμάτων τετυμμένοι, „,ins Herz, ins Bruderherz getroffen", Das schmerzliche Wort τετυμμένοι be- stätigt ( δῆτα: zu 864) der andere Halbchor. In der Lücke ist das verb. fin. verloren gegangen (etwa ἐπέσετε μέλεοι).

933. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-603

⁴

ἐπανθίζειν: στέφειν ὡς ἄν- θεσι Schol. zu Cho. 150.

935. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg004-wecklein1902-com-ger1-604

⁵

⁶

Und zum Schlusse haben die Fluchgeister ihren schrillen Triumphgesang angestimmt, nach- dem das Geschlecht in völlige Flucht geschlagen ist. Die Sieges- trophäe des Unheils steht an dem Tore, an welchem sie getroffen wurden, und mit dem Sieg über beide ist das Schicksal zur Ruhe gekommen". Der Ausdruck ist bildlich, die Bilder aber haben be- sondere Beziehung zur Wirklich- keit. Zu Αραί vgl. 70, Eum. 420 Αραὶ δ' ἐν οἴκοις γῆς ὑπαὶ κεκλή- μεθα (spricht eine Erinys). Zum Gedanken vgl. Cho. 1073 που δῆτα κρανεί, που καταλήξει μετακομισθέν μένος ἄτης, den Chorgesang Soph. Ant. 582 ff.

Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 933

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Αντιγονη

παισθεὶς ἔπαισας.

Ισμηνη

σὺ δ᾽ ἔθανες κατακτανών.

Αντιγονη

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔκανες¹

Ισμηνη

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔθανες

Αντιγονη

μελεόπονος.
960

Ισμηνη

μελεοπαθής.

Αντιγονη

ἴτω γόος.

Ισμηνη

ἴτω δάκρυ.²

Αντιγονη

πρόκεισαι³

Ισμηνη

κατακτάς.
965
966

ΗΜ.

ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι,

διανομαῖς οὐ φίλαις,
935

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ, νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ,

ΗΜ.

πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ζόα φονορύτῳ

Ἡμιχόριον Α
στρ. δ'.

ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι

διατομαῖς οὐ φίλαις,

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
910

νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ζωὴ φονορύτῳ

Ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι

Str. 3.

διατομαῖς ἀφίλοις οὐ φίλαις

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
935

νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.

Πέπαυται δ' ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

AESCHYLI

ΧΟΡΟΣ

αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθῆ.

antistr. 3.

ΗΜΙΧ. Α

πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων

ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς

θηκτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων

ἴσος δατητὰς Ἄρης, ἀρὰν πατρώι-

αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθή. –
945

Semi-Chorus

LE CHŒUR

même sang ! Cruel a été l'arbitre de leur débat, l'étranger du Pont, le Fer ¹ qui sort aiguisé de la flamme ; cruel, l'impartial
partageur de leur patrimoine, Arès, qui réalise aujourd'hui l'imprécation de leur père.

2d SEMICHORUS.

Far beyond each sorrowing dame,
1040

Each that bears a mother's name,

Each that groans upon the earth,

Hapless she that gave them birth.

She, to share her bed and throne,

As an husband took her son:
1045

These she bore, and this their fate,

Brother slain by brother's hate.

ISMENE.

Brothers they, by birth allied,

Spread the mutual carnage wide:

Unfriendly each to other's life,
1050

In the madding rage of strife.

But their hatred is no more,

On the earth, all stain'd with gore,

Their stream of life unites, and shows

From one common source it rose.
1055

CHORUS.

Umpire of the strife of kings,

Forth the barbarous stranger springs:

Ruthless issuing from the flame

O'er the seas the keen steel came.

Ruthless came the realm to share,
1060

Big with mischief, wasting war,

And accurs'd, without remorse,

Executes a father's curse.

ANTIGONE.

Disciolse i nodo

de le liti fra lor l'ospite Càlibo

temprato al fuoco, in questo amaro modo:

le sciolse il ferro. Con amare mani
1040

Marte partiva i beni: i voti d'Edipo

non volle, il tristo, che cadesser vani.

CORO

Sem.

Cæde liberata illorum uita mixta eſt.

Plus fatis uerò sunt fratres.

Cho.

Acerbum liberator contentionum Pontinus

Hoſpes, ex igni commotum acutum ferrum.
865

Acerbum uerb rerum malus diuiſor

Est Mars, execrationem paternam faciens ueram.

Anti.

SEMI-CHORUS I
ANTISTROPHE IV.

Of heaven-sent woe allotted shares have they;—

Unhappy, doom'd from birth!

Lies 'neath their lifeless clay

Wealth fathomless of earth.

Ja Bruderhand, liebelos zerfleischend, gab

Ihnen graunvollen Tod

Im wildlodernden Zwift:
895

Also zerrann die Zwietracht!

Erster Halbchor.

Commentary

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Αντιγονη παισθεὶς ἔπαισας.

Ισμηνη σὺ δ᾽ ἔθανες κατακτανών.

Αντιγονη δορὶ δ᾽ ἔκανες 1

Ισμηνη δορὶ δ᾽ ἔθανες

Αντιγονη μελεόπονος. 960

Ισμηνη μελεοπαθής.

Αντιγονη ἴτω γόος.

Ισμηνη ἴτω δάκρυ. 2

Αντιγονη πρόκεισαι 3

Ισμηνη κατακτάς. 965 966

ΗΜ. ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι, διανομαῖς οὐ φίλαις, 935 ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ, νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ,

ΗΜ. πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ ζόα φονορύτῳ

Ἡμιχόριον Α στρ. δ'. ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι διατομαῖς οὐ φίλαις, ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ, 910 νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ ζωὴ φονορύτῳ

Ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι Str. 3. διατομαῖς ἀφίλοις οὐ φίλαις ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ, 935 νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ. Πέπαυται δ' ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

AESCHYLI

ΧΟΡΟΣ αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθῆ. antistr. 3.

ΗΜΙΧ. Α πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς θηκτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων ἴσος δατητὰς Ἄρης, ἀρὰν πατρώι- αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθή. – 945

Semi-Chorus

LE CHŒUR même sang ! Cruel a été l'arbitre de leur débat, l'étranger du Pont, le Fer 1 qui sort aiguisé de la flamme ; cruel, l'impartial partageur de leur patrimoine, Arès, qui réalise aujourd'hui l'imprécation de leur père.

2d SEMICHORUS. Far beyond each sorrowing dame, 1040 Each that bears a mother's name, Each that groans upon the earth, Hapless she that gave them birth. She, to share her bed and throne, As an husband took her son: 1045 These she bore, and this their fate, Brother slain by brother's hate.

ISMENE. Brothers they, by birth allied, Spread the mutual carnage wide: Unfriendly each to other's life, 1050 In the madding rage of strife. But their hatred is no more, On the earth, all stain'd with gore, Their stream of life unites, and shows From one common source it rose. 1055

CHORUS. Umpire of the strife of kings, Forth the barbarous stranger springs: Ruthless issuing from the flame O'er the seas the keen steel came. Ruthless came the realm to share, 1060 Big with mischief, wasting war, And accurs'd, without remorse, Executes a father's curse.

ANTIGONE.

Disciolse i nodo de le liti fra lor l'ospite Càlibo temprato al fuoco, in questo amaro modo: le sciolse il ferro. Con amare mani 1040 Marte partiva i beni: i voti d'Edipo non volle, il tristo, che cadesser vani.

CORO

Sem. Cæde liberata illorum uita mixta eſt. Plus fatis uerò sunt fratres.

Cho. Acerbum liberator contentionum Pontinus Hoſpes, ex igni commotum acutum ferrum. 865 Acerbum uerb rerum malus diuiſor Est Mars, execrationem paternam faciens ueram.

Anti.

SEMI-CHORUS I ANTISTROPHE IV. Of heaven-sent woe allotted shares have they;— Unhappy, doom'd from birth! Lies 'neath their lifeless clay Wealth fathomless of earth.

Ja Bruderhand, liebelos zerfleischend, gab Ihnen graunvollen Tod Im wildlodernden Zwift: 895 Also zerrann die Zwietracht!

Erster Halbchor.

Commentary

Stable identifiers

Αντιγονη

παισθεὶς ἔπαισας.

Ισμηνη

σὺ δ᾽ ἔθανες κατακτανών.

Αντιγονη

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔκανες¹

Ισμηνη

δορὶ δ᾽ ἔθανες

Αντιγονη

μελεόπονος.
960

Ισμηνη

μελεοπαθής.

Αντιγονη

ἴτω γόος.

Ισμηνη

ἴτω δάκρυ.²

Αντιγονη

πρόκεισαι³

Ισμηνη

κατακτάς.
965
966

ΗΜ.

ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι,

διανομαῖς οὐ φίλαις,
935

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ, νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ,

ΗΜ.

πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ζόα φονορύτῳ

Ἡμιχόριον Α
στρ. δ'.

ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι

διατομαῖς οὐ φίλαις,

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
910

νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.

Ἡμιχόριον Β

πέπαυται δ᾽ ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ζωὴ φονορύτῳ

Ὁμόσποροι δῆτα καὶ πανώλεθροι

Str. 3.

διατομαῖς ἀφίλοις οὐ φίλαις

ἔριδι μαινομένᾳ,
935

νείκεος ἐν τελευτᾷ.

Πέπαυται δ' ἔχθος, ἐν δὲ γαίᾳ

ΧΟΡΟΣ

αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθῆ.

antistr. 3.

ΗΜΙΧ. Α

πικρὸς λυτὴρ νεικέων

ὁ πόντιος ξεῖνος ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς

θηκτὸς σίδαρος· πικρὸς δὲ χρημάτων

ἴσος δατητὰς Ἄρης, ἀρὰν πατρώι-

αν τιθεὶς ἀλαθή. –
945

LE CHŒUR

même sang ! Cruel a été l'arbitre de leur débat, l'étranger du Pont, le Fer ¹ qui sort aiguisé de la flamme ; cruel, l'impartial
partageur de leur patrimoine, Arès, qui réalise aujourd'hui l'imprécation de leur père.

2d SEMICHORUS.

Far beyond each sorrowing dame,
1040

Each that bears a mother's name,

Each that groans upon the earth,

Hapless she that gave them birth.

She, to share her bed and throne,

As an husband took her son:
1045

These she bore, and this their fate,

Brother slain by brother's hate.

ISMENE.

Brothers they, by birth allied,

Spread the mutual carnage wide:

Unfriendly each to other's life,
1050

In the madding rage of strife.

But their hatred is no more,

On the earth, all stain'd with gore,

Their stream of life unites, and shows

From one common source it rose.
1055

CHORUS.

Umpire of the strife of kings,

Forth the barbarous stranger springs:

Ruthless issuing from the flame

O'er the seas the keen steel came.

Ruthless came the realm to share,
1060

Big with mischief, wasting war,

And accurs'd, without remorse,

Executes a father's curse.

Disciolse i nodo

de le liti fra lor l'ospite Càlibo

temprato al fuoco, in questo amaro modo:

le sciolse il ferro. Con amare mani
1040

Marte partiva i beni: i voti d'Edipo

non volle, il tristo, che cadesser vani.

Sem.

Cæde liberata illorum uita mixta eſt.

Plus fatis uerò sunt fratres.

Cho.

Acerbum liberator contentionum Pontinus

Hoſpes, ex igni commotum acutum ferrum.
865

Acerbum uerb rerum malus diuiſor

Est Mars, execrationem paternam faciens ueram.

SEMI-CHORUS I
ANTISTROPHE IV.

Of heaven-sent woe allotted shares have they;—

Unhappy, doom'd from birth!

Lies 'neath their lifeless clay

Wealth fathomless of earth.

Ja Bruderhand, liebelos zerfleischend, gab

Ihnen graunvollen Tod

Im wildlodernden Zwift:
895

Also zerrann die Zwietracht!